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I am helping a startup company to build and maintain their IT infrastructure. The core business of this company is to provide customers with opportunity to build online multimedia albums with lots of photo and videos. So, it is very important to minimize website response time. Datacenter is located in Boston and as company grows they are looking to improve response time for customers from west coast and across the world. We are looking at several possible ways of doing it: 1. Build 2 additional hosting locations: one in West coast and one in London and serve content based on customer's geolocation 2. Use Content delivery network, like Akamai 3. Use outsourced storage ( Amazon S3 ) for pictures, videos and other large files. Amazon S3 also distributing content across multiple datacenters providing decent response time from any geolocation I really like the idea of using Amazon S3, but this service is not really cost effective if you have a lot of traffic (>10 TB/month) Akamai CDN is not cheap either. So I am curious what other small companies with limited budgets are using in similar situations ? Thanks, - Eugene -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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